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Motivated to improve the community, a civic group and 35 students led a cleanup of State Route 95 in Fort Mohave.
As the Phoenix Mercury prepares to play in their first home game of the 2025 WNBA Finals, we want to remind motorists to give an assist to their highway teammates and use their blinkers while they’re driving to help them safely get to and...
A news account reported how a severely injured teen ultimately got to a Phoenix hospital for treatment, due in part to help from an ADOT employee who wasn’t identified. Today, we’re sharing more about that employee and his role in the rescue amid flooding in Globe.

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The world famous Route 66 may have been decommissioned 35 years ago, but here in Arizona you can still cruise through some of those memories.
What would you like to see happen at Grand and 35th avenues? We have some ideas, but want to hear from you as part of an improvement study in the area!
It may still be a little warm outside, but it's never too early to start preparing for winter storms.
The project to bring southern Arizona its first diverging diamond is moving fast, both to complete the work and to minimalize impact for drivers.
If you are driving in search of the quasi-mythical Arizona fall, please remember to be careful behind the wheel.
It's definitely not the proverbial "Bridge to Nowhere." We promise this bridge is somewhere in Arizona! If you know where, join our challenge!
Recently we received two thank you notes for ADOT employees who had gone above and beyond.
We are nearly half a year into our project to reconstruct the I-17 bridge over Central Avenue. While the project won't be finished until fall 2021, here's some photographic evidence of progress being made.
It's not always easy to reach people with a message about distracted driving, so we are taking the message onto social media with new stickers and profile frames.
The Chevelon Creek bridge may not be part of a transcontinental highway anymore, but that doesn't make it any less impressive.